Visual representation categorises and organises ideas in a particular way. This broad term encompasses other terms such as graphic outline, structured overview and concept map. It is one of a number of pre-reading strategies which assists students to gain meaning from the text by: providing a …
Lexis Education wins Runner Up prize for COBIS Supporting Member of the Year Awards
We are thrilled to announce that Lexis Education has won theRunner Up prize at the prestigious COBIS Supporting Member of the Year Awards 2019. We would like to thank the wonderful British School of Jakarta for nominating us. We are genuinely humbled to receive such warm recognition from the …
The brain and teaching: using research on neuroplasticity to inform our teaching
The human brain is a hugely complex organ and the talk about it is complex and often hotly contested. The fact that it garners a lot of attention in the media as well as in popular literature makes talk of the brain increasingly interesting, and necessary, for educators. This article sets out to …
Pakenham Secondary College
A few years ago, we shared with you a research conducted in 2018 and evaluating the whole-school implementation of an explicit language-based pedagogy in one of the most economically disadvantaged schools in Victoria, Australia. We are excited today to be sharing with you two exciting updates …
Feedback: Teaching ESL Students in Mainstream Classrooms – Hong Kong, March 2019
Thank you to the Australian International School Hong Kong for hosting a highly successful Teaching ESL Students in Mainstream Classrooms tutor training. Really enjoyed doing this. Heavy impact. I have grown considerably in 5 days! Intense but very useful. It will take some thought and time to pull …
The British School Jakarta
The British School Jakarta has been present in Jakarta for over 40 years and has a role of 1,400 students aged 3 to 18. In 2015, BSJ decided to implement Lexis Education's Teaching in English in multilingual classrooms (TEMC) course, a language-based pedagogy to accelerate multilingual …